To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
Outstanding stock refers to shares that have been issued and remain in the public's hands. It's simply the number of issued shares minus the number that the company has bought back and is currently holding. Shares held by the company itself are called treasury stock. Those shares have no voting rights. At the end of 2011, General Electric's 11.7 billion issued shares included about 10.6 billion outstanding shares and about 1.1 billion treasury shares.